January 23rd, 2018

This is another bundle of RPG support material; maps and plans for a variety of locations and types of campaign. It's from the same people who did the Great City bundle last year, and looks to be the same sort of idea, but more diverse.

"This 0one Blueprints offer presents a gigantic collection of RPG maps and bestselling blueprints from 0one Games. You may have seen 0one's fine work on the massive Great City Campaign Setting we presented in July 2017. These blueprints enhance any medieval fantasy campaign with beautifully drafted castles, crypts, taverns, dockyards, towers, islands, pirate lairs, drow strongholds, Wild West frontier towns, and even Jules Verne's Nautilus submarine.

These state-of-the-art interactive .PDFs let you turn the grids (both square and hexagonal) on and off, show or hide room numbers, show walls as outlines or filled, show or hide doors and furniture, orient the compass rose, change print options, and make many other customizations, depending on the kind of map. (Interactive features require the free Adobe Reader.)

We provide each file complete in .PDF (Portable Document Format). Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these books have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their ereaders.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this offer's designated charity, the RPG Creators Relief Fund. The Roleplaying Game Creators Relief Fund (RCRF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization founded to provide financial assistance to tabletop roleplaying game creators suffering hardship due to medical emergencies, natural disasters, and other catastrophic situations.

The total retail value of the maps and blueprints in this offer at launch is US$105.50. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all nine titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $51.50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including seven sets of Great City ward blueprints (The Great City itself plus Army, Castle, Dock, Residence, Temple, and Trades Ward sets -- total retail price $11.50) and the giant Crimson Sea and Ironhill Citadel map collections (retail $20 apiece).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $23.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with eleven more titles worth an additional $54, including the Wild West frontier town and Drow City series; seven more sets of Great City blueprints (Cold Crypts, Cutthroats' Alley, Graveyard, Hope Park, Marketplace, Prophet's Court, and The Saltshacks); and two modern-day "Deep Blues" maps, the Nautilus and Airship."

At least one more title will be added later: "When a title is added after launch, ALL customers who previously purchased the bundle automatically receive the newly added title, REGARDLESS of whether or not they paid more than average. This is their reward for buying early."

This looks like a fun collection - for obvious reasons I'm most interested in the Victorian and Steampunk bits, but depending on the type of game you run some or all of it may be useful. That's assuming that you don't make your own plans, of course! Annoyingly, the bit I'd most like to talk about is a surprise item that will be added later, but the Nautilus and Airship are fun too. Having made quite a few plans over the years I appreciate the huge amount of work that must have gone into them, and I think that they're reasonably good value. But since I'm actually only going to be downloading two or three, and don't have to pay, I may be biased.

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